Nov 5 Reuters When Reuters reported in April that Tesla had scrapped plans for a longpromised, nextgeneration 25,000 electric vehicle, the automakers stock plunged. Chief Executive Elon Musk rushed to respond on X, his socialmedia network.

Reuters is lying, he posted, without elaborating. Teslas stock recovered some of its losses.

Six months later, Musk appears to have backed into an admission that Tesla dropped its plans for a humandriven 25,000 car. He said in an Oct. 23 earnings call that building the affordable EV would be pointless unless the car was fully autonomous.

His latest remarks came in response to an investor asking When can we expect Tesla to give us the 25,000 nonrobotaxi regular car model?

Musk responded Were not making a nonrobo, before he was interrupted by another Tesla executive. Musk later added Basically, I think having a regular 25K model is pointless. It would be silly.

The April 5 Reuters article reported that Tesla had abandoned plans for an allnew, affordable massmarket EV but still planned a selfdriving robotaxi. Since then, Musk has increasingly touted plans for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles.

Tesla and Musk did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

On the October earnings call, Musk said that Tesla does plan a 25K car its Cybercab, a twodoor, twoseat, fully autonomous vehicle. Musk unveiled a prototype at a Hollywoodstyle event on Oct. 10.

Musk says Tesla will start production of the Cybercab in 2026, after it…